Mirror - Vol. 23, No. 07 - November 06, 1997

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 23 Number 7 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, November 6, 1997
Four university candidates win RTM
election
Maura Parsons
News Editor
Fairfield University
has never had both Democratic
and Republican candidates on
the RepresentativeTownMeet-ing;
that is, until last Tuesday
night.
, Just after 9 p.m. on
Nov. 4, the results from the
polls revealed that all four can-didates
from Fairfield Univer-sity
were victorious in obtain-ing
positions on the town of
Fairfield's RTM.
Mike Franz '99,
Jerry Schlichting '00, Domenic
Paniccia '98, and Henry
Humphreys, director of Resi-dence
Life, won four out of
five possible seats. on the
RTM in district four. Former
candidate Chad Peddicord '99
withdrew from the election on
Oct. 29.
The three students
will replace current RTM stu-dent
representatives, Chris
Cipriano and Jim O' Connor, on
the RTM. All four candidates
will serve on the 50 member
RTM and will have an opportu-nity
to vote on issues relevant to
university students living both
on campus and at the beach. "I
will do mybest to represent their
concerns in town," said Paniccia,
a Democrat.
Franz, also a Demo-crat,
said that he believes that
the four RTM representatives
share the same concerns and
will work well together repre-senting
the university on the
RTM. "Jerry, Dom, and I plan
to sit down together and discuss
the issues," Franz said. He also
said that he and Paniccia al-ready
have a good relationship
with Humphreys because of
their Resident Assistant posi-tions.
Franz is looking for-ward
to working with the new
Democratic government of
Fairfield and hopes to gain valu-able
experience from serving
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The district four voting station at the Jennings school
the local government. "I hope
to live up to the responsibility,
and do the best that I can,"
Franz said.
Paniccia hopes to gain
experience on the grass-roots
level while serving on the
RTM. "I will have now have a
chance to experience politics
from the inside out," Paniccia
said.
Republican winners
Schlichting and Humphreys were
unavailable for comments.
Peddicord withdraws from
RTM election
Maura Parsons
News Editor
As students exited the
district four polling booths on
Tuesday Nov. 4, they may have
noticed a candidate's name
missing from the RTM ballot.
Six days before the election,
Chad Peddicord, a republican
RTM candidate and university
student, announced his with-drawal
as a RTM candidate af-ter
it was discovered that he
does not live on campus.
Fairfield's Republican
Registrar of Voters, Joan
O' Rourke, discovered last week
that Peddicord's name appears
on a lease of a student beach
house on Fairfield Beach Road.
The student beach area is not
part of district four, the
university's voting district.
Most student beach houses fall
in district ten.
According to
O'Rourke, Peddicord would
have been disqualified if he did
not withdraw from the election
because he violated local vot-ing
laws. The law states that
candidates must live in the dis-trict
that they run in.
Peddicord released a state-ment
on Wednesday Oct. 29,
the eve of his withdrawal, stat-ing
jthat he considered the uni-versity
to be his primary resi-dence.
"I was under the impres-sion
that since I am a full-time
student at Fairfield University
and receive my mail at a cam-pus
box that this was consid-ered
my full-time residence,"
Peddicord said.
However, O'Rourke stated
that having a campus mailbox
does not make the university
his residence. "You get your
mail on campus, you do not
have a room on campus," she
said. "The law states where
you sleep is where you vote."
O'Rourke said that
Peddicord should have made
them aware in September that
he would not be living on cam-pus
this year and arrangements
could have been made for him
to move back on campus be-fore
election day. "It's just an
unfortunate situation,"
O'Rourke said. "I don't think
it was intentional on Chad's
part."
Yet, several sources close
to Peddicord have revealed that
he made an effort to conceal the
fact that he lives at the beach.
These sources, who do not wish
to be identified, said that
Peddicord took several actions
to make it appear that he lives
on campus.
The 1997 university
townhouse directory lists him
as living at townhouse 83 and
he appears on the townhouse's
voice mail message. In the
S.T.A.G., the student telephone
and address guide, Peddicord does
not list either a campus address or
a beach address.
One source stated that
Peddicord may have intentionally
left out his local address from the
student directory. Peddicord did
not return calls to comment about
this issue.
In the beginning of the Fall
semester, the town's Registrar of
Voters notified 133 university stu-dents
living at the beach, includ-ing
Peddicord, that they could not
vote in the District four elections.
These students were notified by
mail and were informed that they
must vote in their own districts.
Several of these beach resi-dents
called the office of the Reg-istrar
of Voters after receiving the
notice in the mail, none of them
were Chad Peddicord.
Inside
this week
Did you catch
cultural aware-ness
week?
Find out what you missed,
see p. 3
Halloween
scare at the
townhouses
Trick or treat?, see p.6
Eating disor-ders
and our
bodies
Find out ifyour eating
habits fit the description,
seep. 7
Laundry cards:
are they worth
it?
Staff writer address the
card cost mystery, see p. 9
Getting tired of
the same bars?
Find something new,
see p. 15
Looking for
a good
threesome?
We 've got a triofor you,
see p. 16.
FUSA
Faculty
Evaluations
Good luck register-ing,
see pgs. 17-20
Women's soc-cer
simply the
best
Read all about it, see p.24